Dansby v. State

A NNABELLE CLINTON IMBER, Justice.

A jury found Joe Louis .Dansby guilty of two counts of capital murder and sentenced him to death on April 24, 1997. On direct appeal, we affirmed the capital-murder convictions and death sentence in Dansby v. State, 338 Ark. 697, 1 S.W.3d 403 (1999) (Dansby I). Pursuant to Ark. R. Crim. P. 37.5 (2001), Mr. Dansby filed a petition for postconviction relief in which he raised only one claim for relief: that his trial counsel were ineffective in permitting him to testify because doing so led to the State’s use of rebuttal testimony from his wife that he…